SEOUL, March 2 (Yonhap) -- The first talks between North Korean and the U.S.-led United Nations Command (UNC) in nearly seven years ended in a few hours on Monday, a UNC spokesman said, but the res

SEOUL, March 2 (Yonhap) -- South Korean financial firms' income from selling
insurance policies rose 7.2 percent in 2008 from a year earlier, the country's

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official in paras 6-8, 15)
By Lee Joon-seung

SEOUL, March 2 (Yonhap) -- Japan's Honda Motor Co. hiked its vehicle prices by an
average 13.85 percent in South Korea, the second increase this year, hit by a

By Nam Kwang-sik
SEOUL, March 2 (Yonhap) -- Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co., South Korea's
third largest builder by sales, said Monday that it has clinched a US$47.6

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By Lee Chi-dong
SEOUL, March 2 (Yonhap) -- Two-star generals from North Korea and the U.S.-led

SEOUL, March 2 (Yonhap) -- The Korea Interbank Offered Rates (KORIBOR) as posted
by Yonhap Infomax, the financial news and information arm of Yonhap News Agency,
at 11:00 a.m.

SEOUL, March 2 (Yonhap) -- Ssangyong Motor Co., which secured bankruptcy
protection in January, said Monday sales plummeted 69.4 percent last month as

SEOUL, March 2 (Yonhap) -- Stephen Bosworth, the new U.S. point man on North
Korea, will arrive in South Korea this weekend in the last leg of his first Asian

SEOUL, March 2 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks dropped 3.19 percent late Monday
morning as steep losses in the local currency dented market sentiment, analysts